Copy (Mouse selection) & Paste (in Text File)

[Luciana]

Hello Everyone,

I started yesterday using the Autoit tool.

I need your help to finish a script. All I want it to do is to Copy a selection and past it in a text file.

That´s how I´m trying to do it.

Func CopyPastPrint()

MouseClickDrag("left", 7, 27, 643, 315) ; Select the text area I want to copy

Send("^c") ; Copy

FileWrite($file, Send("^v") & @CRLF) ; Paste the selection in a Text File

EndFunc

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

If this question is too easy, I have another thing I have to do beside this. I have to see if the last 3 characters of this selection is equal to "END".

Any clue will be very welcome!!!

Thanks to all!!!

Luciana Cantarelli

[PsaltyDS]

What goes wrong? Does anything happen at all? Have you opened the file for write before writing to it? What triggers your function?

As for "END":

If StringRight($sText, 3) = "END" Then MsgBox(64, "End", "The End.")

Changing '=' to '==' would make it case sensitive.

[SmOke_N]

What is this?

FileWrite($file, Send("^v") & @CRLF)oÝ÷ Ù:òjëh×6FileWrite($file, ClipGet() & @CRLF)

[Luciana]

This code is part of a very large program. I just made it simple to post here.

The code:

Send("^c") ; ^c should be Ctrl-C command

FileWrite($file, Send("^v") & @CRLF)

; ^v should be Ctrl-V command. The file is opening ok, there is no error regarding to the file. I tried to use the ClipGet() function instead of Send("^v") , but it does not return the selection obtained during the Send("^c") command --it puts in the file others things that I have in my clipboard.

I was thinking in use the ClipPut() instead of Send("^c") to copy the selection otained during the MouseClickDrag(), but it doesn't work (or I don't know how to make it work).

Thanks for the replies!!!!

Luciana Cantarelli

[SmOke_N]

I don't know why you are doing what you are doing... or what data you are trying to get... Personally, I would probably just use ControlGetText or WinGetText and parse the strings that way... but to each their own.

If your clipboard has data... then clear it before calling Send("^c").

ClipPut("")

Send("^c")

FileWrite($file, ClipGet() & @CRLF)

The way you have it now with Send("^v") and FileWrite absolutely will not work.

[PsaltyDS]

What is the app window you are selecting stuff from? If it's an IE window, or a game, Flash window, or several other types of apps, that technique may never work.

If you manually highlight with the mouse, and then manually use ctrl-c/ctrl-v to copy/paste, does it work?

[Luciana]

Hi!

The purpose of what I´m doing is that my boss asked me to extract 225 reports from cobol system that is accessed using telnet. This system is descentralized and any report development would cost a lot of money to us. I know this report is extracted following easy and the same steps. That's why I want to do it using the Autoit. I actually did all the steps until the selection of the text, I just need to copy the selected text (from telnet) into a text file. This if the final result is this text file with all 225 screen one below the other.

I did what you recommended but it still didn´t work.

Atc.,

Luciana Cantarelli

[Luciana]

PsaltyDS,

That´s what i was doing right now. I notice that sometimes de Ctrl-C works - sometimes it doen´t. Sometimes the Ctrl-INS (same thing as Ctrl-C) works, sometimes it doesn't. I have no clue why it's been so instable.

The app is that black promt Widowns screen (like DOS but runing the telnet.exe). You can try... go in Start > Run > telnet.

Thanks!

Edited October 5, 2007 by Luciana

[SmOke_N]

Have you tried ControlSend("Window Title Or Handle", "", "", "^c") after the drag?

[PsaltyDS]

PsaltyDS,

That´s what i was doing right now. I notice that sometimes de Ctrl-C works - sometimes it doen´t. Sometimes the Ctrl-INS (same thing as Ctrl-C) works, sometimes it doesn't. I have no clue why it's been so instable.

The app is that black promt Widowns screen (like DOS but runing the telnet.exe). You can try... go in Start > Run > telnet.

Thanks!

Console telnet client?! Egad!!

Any chance you could just turn on logging in the telnet client, and parse the resulting file after you display all the required data?

[Luciana]

hummm A lot of new information!!! Thanks!!!

1) How do I turn on the telnet logging?

2) What´s Egad?

3) Once I finish it all I´ll post as Script Example.

4) I attached the report I want to copy and past on a text file. Sorry this in portugues but you can have a clue.

Thanks!!!

Luciana

Edited October 5, 2007 by Luciana

[PsaltyDS]

hummm A lot of new information!!! Thanks!!!

1) How do I turn on the telnet logging?

Depends on the version of windows/telnet client you are using, but something like:

TELNET -f C:\Temp\Telnet.log telnet.server.com

2) What´s Egad?

You don't know? Egad!

3) Once I finish it all I´ll post as Script Example.

4) I attached the report I want to copy and past on a text file. Sorry this in portugues but you can have a clue.

That looks very much like you might be able to parse the file after the fact. Perhaps much quicker and easier than trying to automate the telnet console window itself.